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"Truax Field Calling" Radio Show

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Truax Field soldiers produce a weekly radio show, "Truax Field Calling" for WIBA, broadcasting from the field. Shown performing at the microphone, left to ...
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Brian Willson Gives the Peace Sign

Date: 1988
Description: Brian Willson, Vietnam veteran who lost both legs during a demonstration in 1987, holds up his arm to give the peace sign to audience at a New York peace c...
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News Broadcaster Promotes Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: News broadcaster Bon Turner makes an appeal over the radio to farmers to bring their scrap metal into town to help meet the country's need for vital war ma...
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Crowd at University of Wisconsin Teach-in

Date: 04 01 1965
Description: A crowd of over 1000 students attend a 10-hour teach-in against the war in Vietnam. The teach-in was conducted by 25 faculty members in the University of W...
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Typewriters Waiting to be Repaired

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Description: A table top is filled with typewriters at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). Two signs identify which need repair, and which have been repaired. In th...
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Negotiations at Gresham

Date: 01 18 1975
Description: Negotiations between leaders of the Menominee Warrior Society and the American Indian Movement with General Hugh Simonson (in the Army jacket) of the Wisco...
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North Vietnamese Press Conference

Date: 08 22 1967
Description: Press conference held at the International Press Club in Hanoi to announce the destruction and loss of life in the American bombing of Hue Street in a resi...
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Building Dedication

Date: 04 1992
Description: Congressman David R. Obey speaking at the podium at the dedication of the new Naval Reserve building. Three naval officers, a man in a suit, and three sail...
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Men Into Space Scene

Date: 08 26 1959
Description: William Lundigan, as Colonel Ed McCauley on the television show Men Into Space, talks into a microphone. Two other men are next to him, one standing...
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Men Into Space Characters in Uniform

Date: 08 06 1959
Description: Ken Lynch, as General Thomas, Harry Townes, as Dr. William Thyssen, and William Lundigan as Colonel Ed McCauley, are seen on the television show Men Int...
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Marc Blitzstein Publicity Still

Date: 1943
Description: Marc Blitzstein in U.S. Army Air Corps uniform at a piano, singing into a BBC microphone. Caption on reverse of image reads "London, 1943".
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Robert Doyle

Date: 1945
Description: Robert Doyle, Journal war correspondent, took his wire recorder aboard the battleship Wisconsin while it was part of Admiral Halsey's 3rd fleet off ...
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Air Defense Activities at Truax Field to be Phased Out

Date: 10 19 1964
Description: General Frederick Terrell addresses the planned phase-out of air defense activities at Truax Field over three and a half years.
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Viet Nam Policy is Discussed at a Meeting of the Policy Committee of the U.W. Young Democrats

Date: 10 30 1965
Description: Critics and supporters of the United States policy in Viet Nam discuss their views at a meeting of the policy committee of the University of Wisconsin Youn...
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Alvin Benson, VA Hospital

Date: 03 23 1954
Description: Alvin Benson playing records to broadcast over the radio at the VA Hospital.
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Hannah Mrozak

Date: 08 16 2016
Description: Hannah Mrozak, a local Milwaukee singer, standing behind a podium while singing the national anthem. A man in a military uniform is standing on the left ho...
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Mary Ann Buckley

Date: 1985
Description: View from stage of a woman standing at a podium, with her back to the photographer. In front of her is a table stacked with cards or books, and an audience...
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Robert Sharon Allen

Date: 04 1947
Description: View of a man standing at a microphone. A man is seated at a table next to him and appears to be laughing. Caption reads: "Col. Robert S. Allen, Washington...
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Set of Luggage

Date: 01 12 1952
Description: Two men and a woman are posing while standing behind a table. One of the men has his arm around the other. A set of luggage is on the table in front of the...
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Textile Labor Convention

Date: 05 1946
Description: A man stands at a podium, gesturing. A seal on the front of the podium reads: "Atlantic City Audito[rium]." Caption identifies him as William Pollock, gene...

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